Convertible sun-parlor and bedroom in buildings.



N. C. MERRILL.

CONVERTIBLE SUN PARLOR AND BEDROOM IN BUILDINGS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 1914. Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

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N. C. MERRILL.

' CONVERTIBLE SUN PARLOR AND BEDROGIIII IN BUILDINGS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 1914. 1,174,264. Patented Mar. 7,1916.

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CONVERTIBLE SUN-PARLOR AND BEDROOM IN BUILDINGS.

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Be it known that I, NaTHaN C. MERRILL, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago", in the'county of CookA and State of Without such double use being obvious to the ordinary visitor.

The object of this invention is to so combine the walls of any room usually a sun parlorr with its own furniture and with an adjacent or supplemental room that the above mentioned desired result is produced, at the same time at night providing a bed room or sleeping porch of larger' size than the sun parlor proper in which good ventilation is provided. Y

A further object is to provide as a part of the device a swinging door or partition provided with furniture for different purposes or of different characters on the opposite sides thereof which may to` a greater or less extent be used by day or by night when and as desired. e

A further object is to provide a novel form of door or door mounting adapted to prevent sagging of the door and insure proper operation thereof in all of its positions. regardless of the load of furniture upon opposite sides of the door and to provide a novel mounting for the hinge of the door with reference to the frame work of the building thereby providing a device of attractive appearance under all conditions.

The invention consists in a device capable of carrying out the foregoing objects, which r;

can be easily and cheaply made and installed,'which is vsatisfactory in operation and not liable to get out of order. l

The invention furtherconsists in the features and details of construction which will be hereafter more fully described and claimed. v i

Referringto the drawings,'in which' simisame parts plan view of a roomvof a, building equipped with the devices invention in'their preferred forms,the same in'thevp'articul'ar Specification of Letters Patent.

case here illustrated representing a sun parlor which has been converted into a vsleeping porch or bed room for night use. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view of on'e'wall of the device showing the use of av sliding door in place of the hinged door of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 1s a perspective view on a reduced scale of the devices illustrated in Fig. 1 when used as a bed room at night. Fig. 4 is a correspond- 'ing view showing the same room as a sun parlor by day. Fig. 5 is an enlarged plan view of the door which carries the bureau and writing desk on its opposite sides. Fig.

6 is an enlarged side view taken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a side view partially in section of a door showing the hinge mounting therefor. v Fig. 8 is an enlarged detail view of the pivot` mounting for the lower hinge showing the bally bearing construction therefor. In carrying out this invention' in rits preferred form, some sort of a room in the particular casehere illustrated,asun parlor, 10 is provided divided transversely of its length by a more or less extensive partition wall 12 separating from the main room a supplemen- Patented Mar. '7, 1916.

Application led December 7, 1914. Serial No. 875,994.

tal room or closet 10a.' In the particular case v hereillustrated, the partition wall above referred to 1s, when closed, made up of the partition proper as shown at the right 12 so arranged that the bed can swing from.

the full line position of Figs. 1 and 3 in which it is horizontal and ready for useto that of Fig. 4, in which it is in vertical position and forms the solid portion `of the `wall 12 separating the room 10 from its closet 10a. The details of the construction of this bed are immaterial and the box seat 20` appearing conspicuously in Fig. 4 may be present or omitted if desired without departing from the invention. i Q

The door 16 heretofore lreferred to is hinged by suitable hinge devices preferably those shownrin detail in Figs. 7 and 8 to an inner wall 22 of the room vand is adapted to swing between two positions, as shown,

in which it,vwith or withoutV eoperationv with thev supplemental ldoor 24, completes lthe wall 22 of the room in the position shown in dottedlinesin Fig. 1k and in full lines in Fig. 4 ,ill whichjit, 'in Combination 4.with the 'bea uente, @templates/th wall :1a 'herstel' fao fore referred to. The door 16 carries on opposite sides articles of furniture, viz: a dressing table or bureau 30, on the side which faces or enters the closet 10"1 when the door 16 forms a part of the partition 12 and on the opposite side a writing desk or other device 32 adapted to use as a sun parlor in the day time.

1n the operation of the device thus far described the parts are first arranged in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1 in which the bed is lowered, the door 16 is moved to the position in which a dressing table 3() is in the sun parlor 10. 1n this position the device is a complete bedroom equipment while at the same time the sun parlor proper has been enlarged bv the addition of a closet space 10a in and through which the occupants of the room may move at will and through which the air may freely circulate through the window 34 in the closet 10*- as well as the other windows 36 of the sun parlor proper. The device having been used as a bed room, it can be converted into a sun parlor proper by moving the bed 14 from the position of Figs.V 1 and 3 to that of Fig. 4 and correspondingly moving the door 16. 1n this latter position, the bed 14 forms the solid portion of a wall 12 as does the door 16, the same displacing in the sun parlor a Vwriting desk or the like 32. It will be no ticed that the user of the sun parlor can have access to the dressing table 32 in the day time by simply moving the door 16 from the position of Fig. 4 to that of Figs. 1 and 3 without disturbing the bed. 1f any portion of the writing table 32 be used as a dresser or for other bed room purposes, it may be used as such dresser for a bed room located at the left of the sun parlor as viewed in Fig. 1 and communicating with it through the door 24.

rl`he doors 16 and 24 are preferablymade as wide as they conveniently Acan be so that when open the sun parlor is thrown into the adjoining room not shown at the left above referred to but, if desired, the door opening may be made narrower and the door 24 whollyomitted without departing from this invention.

In Fig. 1 the door 24 is shown as a swinging door but if desired the sliding door 40 of Fig. 2 may be substituted without departing from this invention.

In order that the door 16 may carry the heavy dresser 30 and writing desk 32 and at the same time properly perform its function as a door, special hinges illustrated in Fig. 7 are preferably provided. The lower hinge devices consist in a right angled casting 42 binding the lower corner ofthe door having in its bottom a vertically extending recess 44 into which extends a vertical'pin or stud 46 mounted upon the suitable base lcasting 48. On the top of this pin or stud.

46 is an antifriction ball 50. It will be noticed that owing to the fact that this ball 50 rests and rotates upon this pin 46 any dirt which may by accident get up into the hinge tends to flow or otherwise settle out of the hinge by the action of gravity as the device operates. This renders the device very clean and much more eflicientin action than de vices heretofore in use while the triangular member 42 binding the edge of the door braces it very rividly and thus insures against all sagging.V

At the upper corner of the door the corresponding right angled casting 50 is provided equipped on its top with a depending recess 52 into which the lower end of a pin 54 sliding through the upper wall of the room and reinforcing casting 56 is dropped. This construction has the special advantage that. when it is desired to demount the door for any purpose, it is only necessary for the workman to, by proper methods, get hold of the pin 54 and lift it vertically upward suffieiently to release the door.

ln order to provide a neat mounting for the door the frame or jamb of the door is provided with a rectangular notch or recess 60 best seen in Fig. 5 within which the hinge mounting and consequently the edge of the door lie with the result that in either position of the door an observer in the room looking toward the side door and the wall sees an apparently smooth and finished surface, thereby greatly improving the appearance of the device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. 1n the art described, in combination with the exterior walls of a room, a bed device and a door mounted intermediate between two opposite walls of the room to swing between two positions, in one of which they form a partition wall across the room or a substantial part thereof and in the other of which the bed member forms a bed within the room and the door forms a closure for an opening in the wall of the room at an angle to the first mentioned position of the door. v

2. In the art described, in combination with the exterior walls of a room, a bed device and a door mounted intermediate between two opposite walls of the room to swing between two positions, in one of which they form a partition wall across the room or a substantial part thereof and in the other ofwhich the bed member forms a bed within the room and the door forms'a closure for an opening in the wall of the room at an angle to the first mentioned position of the door, doors and bed forming partition so arranged that when in use the room is larger as a sleeping room than when used as a. den in the day time.

3. In the art described, in combination with the exterior walls of a room, a bed device and a door mounted intermediate between two opposite walls of the room to swing between two positions, in one of which they form a partition wall across the room or a substantial part thereof and in the other of which the bed member forms a bed within the room and the door formsr a closure for an opening in the wall of the room at an angle to the first mentioned position of the door, and further in combination with articles of furniture on opposite sides of the door, that on the side which is visible l when the door is in the first mentioned position being for use in the day time and that on the opposite side of the door being for use in a bed room.

4. In the art described, in combination with two adjacent side Walls of a room, a

door hinged at the intersection of said side walls, adapted to swing between two different positions, in one position forming` a closure for an opening in one of the side walls of the room and the other forming a closurenesses.

NATHAN C. MERRILL. Witnesses:

DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, MAX S. RosENzwERG.

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